The Thinking Is Language Metaphor

The thinking is language metaphor is not apt.

I recall my first rocket and mortar attack in Vietnam. I hear the explosion of the first rocket landing nearby. I run out of the hut with my comrades to the bunker. I am afraid. Somebody really wants to kill me. I am helpless. The enemy is far away. I cannot shoot back. Words do not form in my mind as I recall it.

I think about the Riemann Zeta function. Words do not form in my mind while I think about it.

Language is part of thinking, but hardly the whole. Language must fit our metaphorical way of thinking.